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    Finger prick difficulties

    different techniques, thicker strings. as an ex guitarist surely you have some calluses? id need a blade to get blood from my fingers nowadays.
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    personal question. please answer

    i had bad thrush a while back, doc said sugar in the urine was to blame. caused various problems for me for about 9 months. thrush isnt fun, but the condition caused my foreskin skin to loose a lot of its elasticity. even the doctor laughed when i asked "what should i do about my torn...
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    High Intensity Training and Blood sugars

    never done kick-boxing, but i do tae kwon do 2ce a week, and i imagine its fairly similar. the sparring sessions are pretty intense. kicking, punching, blocking, jumping, spinning, all that. constant movement, if only for like 2 mins at a time, still takes it out of you. i always take insulin...
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    Introduce Yourself: Answer Some Personal Questions

    - What is your name? Sam - How old are you? 20 - Are you male or female? Male - Which country are you from? England - Which city/area do you live in? Sheffield, South Yorkshire - Are you religious? nope. im an argumentative atheist - Pick three words to describe your personality. Relaxed...
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    Finger prick difficulties

    after playing bass guitar for a few years, my skin on my finger tips is too tough to get blood out, even with multiple stabbing on the highest setting. i just use my fore arm aswell. takes a few goes to get enough blood out, but with such a lack of nerve endings its much less painfull. its rare...
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    Diabetic & hydracephilis?

    i dont know much about hydracephilis, and tbh, i know very little about Papilledema except that it can cause significant blind spots. i work in an optitians, so i have some (only some, i only do admin) knowladge about diabetic retinopathy and such. the short version is, bad blood sugars makes...
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    injecting in a public place

    when i was first diagnosed with the 'beetus, and first started injecting, i ddnt think about it, and after finding that a friend of mine had such a phobia of needles, that the first few times id inject and she saw, she would pass out. since then iv often made a point of injecting in a public...
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    how high and how low have you been?

    wow, great to hear so much reply on the matter. personaly my highest to day has been beyond my meters range, but it stops reading in numbers at around 50, as iv had readings of 47 in the past, and a few that are just "HI". my lowest reading was 1.9 a few moonths ago, and i did not expect it...
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    how high and how low have you been?

    After 2 years of failing to controll by any measure, and after being given conflicting advice and storys by everybody on the matter, i am curious as to actual diabetics experiences, and not that all too farmiliar line of "oh, well my aunts hairdressers friend says that..." or something similar...